I'm not even sure I should link to it here, but if you check especially the True one, then you will find a lot of material that is very clearly extremely illegal whereas there is content on Jailbait that only likely is illegal. To me, it is unacceptable that truejailbait is hosted here and the nudity, which can also be found on Jailbait, should probably be banned on both subs because there are likely girls younger than 16 on it.
Allowing the creepshots of clothed young girls, even though I strongly dislike it, isn't illegal and would still be allowed. All I am asking you to consider is if we want to allow nudity on these subs? The existence of these subverses pose a threat not only to minors, but to the viability of this entire platform for free speech. Speech does not equal the sharing of pictures that dont belong to you, to others on the internet for the sole purpose of masturbating to it. Trying to defend the sharing of pictures of naked 14yo girls under the guise of free speech brings dishonor to all who have fought and died for it and frankly I find it disgusting to know that jailbait has 1500 subscribers, 10% of the amount Askvoat has.
For those thinking that I am a Reddit mod for thinking this should be banned: this is not about feefees and I can separate my own opinion with what the community wants, the latter of which determines what I shall and shall not do.
Edit: removed the links to the subs.
Edit 2: wanted to add a great argument from /u/PM_me_ur_Nudes:
Not only do I not like it personally, but if we got rid of it, we would probably stop having hosting problems, pay pal problems etc.
Is defending child pornography really worth the thousands of dollars Atko has already lost to PayPal? Even if you have deluded yourself into believing that these naked pictures should be allowed because they are speech, then do you not care about the insane amounts of damage Voat will have to endure in the future because of it?
Edit 3: The thumbnails which were in the True sub and showed the naked girls have been removed.
Edit 4: The subs have been removed. I'm proud to call myself a Voater again and I am proud of Atko for making this tough decision.
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[–] Atko 1 points 12 points 13 points (+13|-1) ago
We will release a statement on this in a few minutes.
[–] RedSocks157 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
Disappointed is all I can say.